Media and Identity Analysis

People are not born with identities – rather, they have identities crafted for them by the society to which they ‘belong'. All forms of media, from television to radio to newspapers etc. can collectively encapsulate certain groups of people and ‘label' them with any given identity, or merely infer a certain identity, by their specific portrayal of the subject covered, and the way in which they display/compose the story. Identity is spawned from difference – without cultural/political/social differences one cannot have an identity. Unfortunately, sometimes these differences are amplified and a strive for a unified nationalistic identity is forfeited when certain groups, such as the Muslim members of society, are subjectified and ‘labelled' through certain media forms, newspapers particularly.

A critically evaluative, and hopefully non-bias, study of Muslim national identity – very much the ‘image' which I'm sure the......

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